20/07/2015 | Argentina

PRO candidate for president Mauricio Macri spoke out after seeing his party retain control of the City government by a razor-thin margin, questioning the level of support Martín Lousteau received from opposition parties in the runoff.

21/07/2015 | Argentina

PRO presidential candidate Mauricio Macri has once again attempted to distance himself from kirchnerite politicians, as he called on a better use of the state's resources on the campaign trail in Tucumán.

30/06/2015 | Argentina

01/07/2015 | Argentina

20/07/2015 | Argentina

Victory Front candidate for president Daniel Scioli argued that PRO counterpart Mauricio Macri contradicted himself by praising laws put into force by his party over the last 12 years, such as the nationalisation of YPF and Aerolíneas Argentinas.

21/06/2015 | Argentina

23/06/2015 | Argentina

A drop in exports has led to the trade balance contracting 72.4 percent in May compared to the same period last year, according to figures published by the National Statistics and Census Institute (INDEC).

26/06/2015 | Argentina

The gross domestic product increased 1.1 percent during the first three months of 2015 compared to the same period last year, boosted by the domestic market and growths in the agricultural and construction sectors, the INDEC statistic bureau has revealed.

08/06/2015 | Argentina

10/06/2015 | Argentina

Renewal Front leader Sergio Massa has dispelled the doubts and rumours over his future by affirming that he remains in the race to succeed President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in this year's elections.

18/05/2015 | Argentina

The National Statistics and Census Institute (INDEC) has revealed that the unemployment rate held steady during the first four months of the year, with 7.1 percent of the working-age population jobless.

02/06/2015 | Argentina

A first draft of an electoral deal between Renewal Front leader Sergio Massa and PRO chief Mauricio Macri has already been prepared and could be signed before the June 10 deadline to register electoral alliances, sources close to the negoations suggested.

07/06/2015 | Argentina

PRO candidate for governor in Buenos Aires province María Eugenia Vidal has repeated the party's pledge not to close an agreement with Renewal Front leader Sergio Massa, opining that former kirchnerite officials had no place in their group.

04/05/2015 | Argentina

12/05/2015 | Argentina

Entre Ríos governor Sergio Urribarri has confirmed his decision to withdraw from the race to become the Victory Front's (FpV) candidate for president, while praising the administration of incumbent Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and underlining his commitment to the party.

21/04/2015 | Argentina

24/04/2015 | Argentina

The INDEC statistics bureau has revealed economic activity increased 1.4 percent in February compared to the same month last year, boosted by the agricultural sector and a hike in consumption. It is the highest increase since January 2014.

01/04/2015 | Argentina

23/02/2015 | Argentina

Domestic Trade Secretary Augusto Costa ratified that the government will meet the 15.6% inflation rate projected in the 2015 budget. “Prices increase but at an increasingly lower rate,” the official said.

15/03/2015 | Argentina

Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli has criticised the Radical Civic Union's decision to fight out the primary elections alongside the PRO, asserting that such a pact was based on contradictory positions.

02/02/2015 | Argentina

The Federal Public Incomes Administration (AFIP) revenue agency has announced that total tax income for January reached a figure of 117.46 billion pesos, 30.1 percent higher than the same period in 2014.

05/01/2015 | Argentina

09/12/2014 | Argentina

14/12/2014 | Argentina

Renewal Front leader Sergio Massa has courted controversy by asserting that it was time for Argentina to divert its focus from the ongoing dictatorship human rights trials, an opinion that drew sharp rebukes from members of the Kirchnerite administration.

15/12/2014 | Argentina

19/11/2014 | Argentina

The decision by the Radical Party (UCR) to reject any alliances with other political parties to challenger the ruling Victory Front in next years’ elections has led to the exit of Elisa Carrió from the center-left coalition. “The UCR gave (Daniel) Scioli the triumph,” the lawmaker warned.

20/11/2014 | Argentina

09/12/2014 | Argentina

13/11/2014 | Argentina

The Buenos Aires province Lower House has approved the new budget law for 2015, as well as an additional tax bill which estimates public spending at 246.2 billion pesos and 30 percent rise in rural and urban real-estate tax.

14/11/2014 | Argentina

BA City Mayor Mauricio Macri confirmed his government has approved the electronic voting system for next year’s elections saying the move will prevent all “fraud possibilities,” reducing parties’ cost to compete in the 2015 run.

19/11/2014 | Argentina

The government defended today its decision to alter the estimates for the 2015 budget with a decree, adding 39.9 billions pesos. Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich said that the measure was based on estimations of higher incomes from tax collection.

09/11/2014 | Argentina

Victory Front lawmaker and president of the Lower House Julián Domínguez has affirmed that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will be crucial in decided the government's candidates for the coming year, when the head of state's successor will be decided in elections.

10/11/2014 | Argentina

PRO’s senator Gabriela Michetti said she would rather run for Buenos Aires City mayoral election than as Mauricio Macri’s vicepresident in 2015 presidential elections. She said the final decision will be anounced “before the end of the year.”

12/11/2014 | Argentina

Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich said the main problem among opposition leaders is that they offer “no reliable (political) alternative” after BA City Mayor Mauricio Macri announced he was considering an agreement with the Broad Front UNEN for the 2015 elections.

09/10/2014 | Argentina

The Lower House of Congress has given next year’s Budget bill its first round of approvals today with 133 votes in favour and112 against. Ruling Victory Front party (FPV) had the numbers to give the project the green light in spite of opposition parties’ rejection.

16/10/2014 | Argentina

CGT opposition splinter leader Hugo Moyano has anticipated his union confederation will support the next government, no matter what political sign it has, as it will need a strong consensus in order to make “tough adjustments” in the country.

30/10/2014 | Argentina

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has defended the economic model followed by her government and warned about certain opposition comments that, according to her, aim at encouraging “negative expectations” on the country’s economy, to later ease the way to economic budget cuts.

16/09/2014 | Argentina

Following the submission of the 2015 Budget bill to Congress, cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich reiterated the government’s optimism for next year’s economic outlook . “Argentina is heading towards a very solid medium and long-term scenario,” he stressed.

23/09/2014 | Argentina

The Budget and Finance Lower House committee has met to analyse the 2015 budget bill. During seven hours, Economy Ministry officials informed lawmakers on several details of the bill, which will be discussed in the Lower House on October 8.

18/08/2014 | Argentina

BA province Governor Daniel Scioli has made a plea for a more human, responsible style of politics and also sent a message to lawmaker Martín Insaurralde alluding to the rumours that the politician could switch to Sergio Massa's Renewal Front.

08/06/2014 | Argentina

The governor of Buenos Aires province, Daniel Scioli, has affirmed that he would continue with many of the policies put in place by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner should he be elected as head of state in 2015, criticising political rivals' calls for change.

13/06/2014 | Argentina

Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich ratified his comments on Daniel Scioli who took part this week in a meeting organized by the media group Clarín – birds of a feather flock together, he had said. Still, he considered that if the Buenos Aires province Governor wins next year’s primaries then he will be “without a doubt” the candidate of the ruling Victory Front (FpV).

27/05/2014 | Argentina

Cordoba province governor José Manuel De la Sota confirmed once again his presidential aspirations and dismissed an alliance with Sergio Massa as his vice-presidential candidate. “If no other candidate proposes the type of project that I want for the country, I will run [in 2015 elections],” he said.

01/06/2014 | Argentina

Mendoza lawmaker Julio Cobos dismissed the possibility of an electoral alliance with Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri for the 2015 presidential elections and stressed that his efforts are aimed to increase UNEN-Broad Front’s representation.

22/05/2014 | Argentina

Senator Carlos Reutemann hit back at ex president Eduardo Duhalde who has questioned his “opportunistic” position in the way to the 2015 elections and accused him of “working” for the federal government by supporting the candidacy of governor of Daniel Scioli in next year’s run.

22/04/2014 | Argentina

Families and friends of the Once train crash victims marked 26 months since the railway tragedy that claimed 51 lives and left almost 800 injured. The commemorative event took place at the Comodoro Py courthouse in BA City where ex transport secretaries Ricardo Jaime and Juan Pablo Schiavi face trial over their political responsibility in the accident.

24/04/2014 | Argentina

“I have no double message,” Interior and Transport Minister Florencio Randazzo has said as he confirmed his determination to compete for the presidential chair next year under the ruling Victory Front party ballot.

04/05/2014 | Argentina

By Martín GambarottaArgentina is always, politically, a big shouting match. It can be no other way now that the presidential elections scheduled for next year will not involve somebody carrying the surname Kirchner for the first time since 2003.

17/04/2014 | Argentina

The ex vice president during Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s first term in office considered the Buenos Aires province governor is not likely to meet the president’s expectations for the 2015 electoral battle.

21/04/2014 | Argentina

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner today praised the work carried out by herself and late husband Nestor Kirchner during over a decade of holding the Argentine presidency, stating that she had no doubt that her successor would inherit a healthier country than in 2003.

22/04/2014 | Argentina

Just hours ahead of the official launch of the UNEN-Broad Front coalition this afternoon, MPs Fernando “Pino” Solanas and Hermes Binner clashed over the possibility of setting an alliance with Mauricio Macri’s right-wing PRO party.

11/04/2014 | Argentina

Anti-government CGT leader Luis Barrionuevo considered opposition figure Sergio Massa is “working toward a different country” and accused the federal government of “resentment accusations” against the head of the Renewal Front coalition.

16/04/2014 | Argentina

Kirchnerite activists that shape up the La Cámpora organization have become the target of a “permanent stigmatizing campaign,” the cabinet chief has said rejecting media versions that alluded to power battles among the leaders of the pro-government group.

07/04/2014 | Argentina

The leader of the Renewal Front, Sergio Massa, and governor of the province of Córdoba, José Manuel de la Sota, today signed a series of pacts in the provincial capital and held a meeting behind closed doors, heightening speculation of an electoral alliance for 2015.

12/01/2014 | Argentina

Kirchnerite Aníbal Fernández does not rule out a presidential bid in 2015 and considers “stupid” opposition versions that allude to CFK’s “absence” in the government. “Decisions are made by the President,” the senator told media.

22/02/2014 | Argentina

From the BA province coastal city of Santa Teresita where he arrived this weekend to attend the summit of the Justicialist Party (PJ), the cabinet chief defended the government’s economic agenda. “This project of country must be kept going over time,” the head of ministers told reporters covering the political event.

29/12/2013 | Argentina

By James NeilsonThough Cristina says she will call it quits when her term as president comes to an end, nobody would be in the least surprised were she to change her mind long before that dark day approaches.

30/12/2013 | Argentina

The head of the Civic Radical Union (UCR), Ernesto Sanz, and Progressive Broad Front leader Hermes Binner have signed a declaration in which the parties agreed to work together, in order to "construct a plan for government" for the 2015 elections.

27/10/2013 | Argentina

Buenos Aires mayor and PRO leader Mauricio Macri used today's legislative elections as a platform to announce his intention to run for president in 2015, and promised change as his party celebrated strong results in the City.

12/11/2013 | Argentina

A significant electoral triumph in October’s midterms for the Victory Front has come to boost presidential chances in 2015 of Chaco province governor Jorge Capitanich. “It is a possibility (running for president) but I have not yet made the decision,” the Kirchnerite said as he ruled out the possibility of integrating the national cabinet of ministers.

18/11/2012 | Argentina

Former Kirchnerite senator and current vice-president of the BA province Banco Provincia, José Pampuro, assured that governor Daniel Scioli “will be running for president in 2015” in case Cristina Fernández de Kirchner cannot be reelected for a third term.

22/01/2013 | Argentina

City Mayor Mauricio Macri once again assured he would not be running for a congressional seat in the midterm elections this year, and stated that he believes "he has what it takes" to run for president in 2015.

31/08/2013 | Argentina

Chaco province governor Jorge Capitanich said Friday’s summit bringing together Peronist leaders was not a show of support for Daniel Scioli ahead of the 2015 presidential elections. “We must secure the President's leadership,” Capitanich said.

04/09/2011 | Argentina

Frente Popular Senator Hilda “Chiche” Duhalde warned that if President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is “reelected by a landslide” next October, this could encourage her to seek a re-reelection in 2015.

23/11/2013 | World

Talks to lay the foundations for a new UN climate pact were deadlocked as they ran into overtime with nations at odds over stepping up finance for developing countries to ease the impact of global warming.

12/12/2014 | Sports

03/01/2015 | Sports

13/06/2015 | Sports

Argentina played an amazing first half against Paraguay in the Copa América opener held in La Serena, but the team led by coach Ramón Díaz got over the initial anxiousness to tie the match 2-2 with a late goal by Lucas Barrios in the 90th minute.

20/03/2013 | Sports

The US Open will revert to a 14-day tournament from 2015 after United States Tennis Association (USTA) officials reached an agreement with players on restructuring the playing schedule and increasing prize money.

03/04/2014 | Arts and Media

Comedian and veteran late-night television host David Letterman will retire as star of "The Late Show" on CBS in 2015, when his latest contract expires, he said during the taping of his show in New York today, the network announced.